BERLIN -- LabTwin GmbH, the world's first voice and AI-powered digital lab assistant, has joined forces with BioRN Life Science Cluster to expand its offering to the Rhine-Main-Neckar Region in Germany. As part of this collaboration, BioRN members will have access to LabTwin's platform. LabTwin uses machine learning and voice-recognition technologies to assist scientists with day-to-day tasks, saving [...]

LAVAL, QC Stefan Clulow appointed as Chair of the Board Kenneth Galbraith appointed as Chief Executive Officer LAVAL, QC, April 23, 2019 /CNW Telbec/ - Prometic Life Sciences Inc. (TSX: PLI) (OTCQX: PFSCF) ("Prometic" or the "Corporation") is pleased to announce today's closing of the recapitalization and equity offering previously announced on April 15, 2019. Prometic received C$75 million (approximately US$56 million) in gross proceeds from the equity [...]

No pipettes, vortexer, heatblock, centrifuge, electricity, or cold chain required. PHILADELPHIA Biomeme, Inc., the leading manufacturer of the world's smallest end-to-end PCR platform announced the release of it's latest mobile solution for the extraction of purified nucleic acids called the M1 Sample Prep Cartridge Kit. Starting today, the company will offer four different versions (DNA, DNA-HI, [...]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--ZAGENO, the leading enterprise marketplace for lab supplies, today announced it raised a $20 million Series B round led by General Catalyst, with follow-on investment from Grazia Equity and Capnamic Ventures. ZAGENO curated more than 8 million research materials and products from premium manufacturing brands on its online platform to serve this $130 billion [...]

LONGMONT, Colo. -- KromaTiD, Inc. announced today that after successfully meeting the Phase 1 grant milestones, the company has been awarded Phase 2 funding from a Fast Track Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute. The SBIR program enables scientific excellence and technological innovation by incentivizing small businesses to [...]

Please accept our sincere gratitude for using Hitachi High-Tech Science (formerly SII NanoTechnology Inc. (SIINT)) atomic force microscopes for a lengthy period of time. While we make significant efforts to prolong the useful lifetime of our instruments and ensure that customers get a good value for their purchase, increases in parts prices and the lack [...]

SEOUL, South Korea--The precision medicine and biotechnology company Macrogen (CEO Kap-Seok Yang, www.macrogen.com/en/ ) announced on April 24 that it had signed a supply contract with Exosome Plus (CEO Jong-Uk Bu, www.exosomeplus.com ) on April 19 to become the exclusive buyer of the exosome isolation kits developed by Exosome Plus. The two companies also signed an MOU for the joint development of exosome-based [...]

SHANGHAI and MINNEAPOLIS - Elpiscience BioPharma and Bio-Techne Corporation announced today that the companies have entered into a strategic collaboration for the development of anti-cancer therapeutics. Under the terms of the agreement, Elpiscience will have access to multiple antibodies from Bio-Techne's extensive product portfolio for use in the development of preclinical, clinical, and commercial biopharmaceuticals. The collaboration between Elpiscience, a biotech [...]

This collaboration is the first to introduce the concept of rWGS in China for indiscriminate detection in the NICU Illumina and Children’s Hospital of Fudan University in China reached an agreement to conduct rapid whole genome sequencing (rWGS) for critically ill infants in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The program is planning to [...]

HERCULES, Calif.–Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global leader of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced the appointment of Dr. Andrew Last as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, effective April 22, 2019. In this role, Dr. Last is responsible for all operating functions of the company on a [...]